2008 Brazilian GP-Race Results

Grid	Pts
1	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	71	Winner	1	10
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	71	+13.2 secs	6	8
3	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	71	+16.2 secs	3	6
4	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	71	+38.0 secs	7	5
5	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	71	+38.9 secs	4	4
6	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	71	+44.3 secs	10	3
7	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	71	+55.0 secs	5	2
8	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	71	+68.4 secs	2	1
9	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	71	+79.6 secs	12
10	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	70	+1 Lap	8
11	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	70	+1 Lap	13
12	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	70	+1 Lap	18
13	16	Jenson Button	Honda	70	+1 Lap	17
14	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	70	+1 Lap	9
15	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	70	+1 Lap	15
16	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	69	+2 Laps	20
17	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	69	+2 Laps	16
18	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	69	+2 Laps	19
Ret	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	0	+71 Laps	11
Ret	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	0	+ 71 Laps	14

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Brazzlian GP-Closer Look

The Brazilian Grand Prix (Portuguese: Grande Prêmio do Brasil) is a Formula One championship race which occurs at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in Interlagos, a district in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

A Brazilian Grand Prix was first held at Interlagos in 1972, although it was not part of the Formula One World Championship. The following year, however, the race was first included in the official calendar. In 1978 the Brazilian Grand Prix moved to Jacarepaguá in Rio de Janeiro, briefly returning to Interlagos for the next two seasons before becoming the sole host from 1981 onwards. In 1990 the Grand Prix returned to Interlagos, where it has stayed since. In 2005, for the first time, the Brazilian GP decided the World Championship, won by Fernando Alonso. On October 22, 2006, Felipe Massa became the last home winner of the Brazilian GP.

While its 68 years old facilities are subpar compared to most circuits on the calendar, the Interlagos circuit has created some of the most exciting and memorable races in recent Formula One history, and is regarded as one of the most challenging and exciting circuits on the F1 calendar. Along with Spa-Francorchamps, it is rare in that the circuit in its modern form is one of the few with a lengthy history in the sport not considered to have lost much of its mystique or challenge in its adaptation for the modern, much more safety-conscious era of 21st century Formula One.

Particularly memorable recent Brazilian Grands Prix include the 2003 race, which saw a maiden Grand Prix victory, highly unexpectedly, and amidst chaotic and unusual circumstances, for Jordan's Giancarlo Fisichella. Heavy rain before and during the race produced problems with tyre selection which caught out many teams, which allowed the weak Minardi team to have a real chance for victory the only time ever, because they were the only team who prepared to the rainfall, but their drivers were also soon out. And treacherous track conditions caused multiple drivers to spin out of the race, including then-reigning World Champion Michael Schumacher, ending a remarkable run of race finishes dating back to the German Grand Prix 2001. Amidst this, a number of drivers, including McLaren's Kimi Räikkönen and David Coulthard, led the race, and, when a heavy accident involving Renault's Fernando Alonso blocked the circuit and brought out the red flag, confusion reigned. Fisichella led the race at the time, having just overtaken Räikkönen; however, it was the Finn who was declared the race winner under the count back rule, which stipulates that the race result in such circumstances is taken from the running order two laps prior to the race being stopped. This decision was overturned days later in the FIA Court of Appeal in Paris after new evidence came to light which proved that Fisichella had crossed the finish line in the lead for a second time before Alonso's accident, and therefore was the rightful winner.

The 2001 Grand Prix was notable for marking the explosive arrival of Juan Pablo Montoya onto the Formula One scene. The Colombian driver stunningly muscled his way past Michael Schumacher early on and led easily until an incident in which Arrows' Jos Verstappen ran into the back of his Williams-BMW and ended his race. Montoya did eventually lay to rest the ghost of this event by winning the 2004 race in his final Grand Prix for Williams before moving to McLaren, holding off his future team-mate Kimi Räikkönen to take a hard-fought victory.

Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever Formula One World Champion at the 2005 Brazilian Grand Prix, his third place behind winner Juan Pablo Montoya and championship rival Kimi Räikkönen enough to clinch the title with two races remaining.

For 2006 the Brazilian Grand Prix, as in 2004, was moved to the prestigious position of hosting the final round of the season, in what was Michael Schumacher's farewell to Formula One. Starting from 10th position on the grid, Schumacher did an astonishing job on his last race. He fell to 19th position on the ninth lap due to a flat tyre caused by a minor collision with Giancarlo Fisichella when the former was trying to overturn the latter. After pitting for a new tyre he returned to the race, just in front of leader Massa, so almost being overlapped, passing several drivers to take the chequered flag in fourth place, after a dazzling passing manoeuvre on Kimi Räikkönen. His performance was not enough to give 'Schumi' his eighth trophy, as Fernando Alonso, who needed only one point to become World Champion again, finished in second place. Brazilian Felipe Massa took pole position and led the race from start to finish for the second victory of his career and celebrations from his Brazilian supporters.

In March 2008, the mayor of São Paulo announced that he had signed a new deal with Bernie Ecclestone to continue the holding of the Brazilian Grand Prix. This deal allows the Brazilian race to be on the calendar until 2015. With this, Interlagos is set for major improvements in its pit and paddock facilities.

The 2008 Grand Prix will be the fourth consecutive world championship decider, this time between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa. In the last three years, Fernando Alonso (twice) and Kimi Raikkonen won the WDC at Interlagos.

Can Kimi Still win the Championship??-Mathematically YES!!

Yes still can win the championship if- (kimi wins each and every race remaining in the calendar) hamilton finishes 3rd in each and every race from now
or he finishes 2nd in 3 races and finshes 5th and 8th in the other two...!
or he finishes 1st in 3 races and retires in the other two or finishes 9th..or less..;-)

and please dont forget massa......maybe in the battle of two cats an monkey may steal the bread..!!!!....like what happened at SPA!!!!

Hamilton stripped of his victory:placed 3rd by the race stewards

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was stripped of a dramatic victory in the Belgian Grand Prix after stewards handed him a 25-second post-race penalty.

The Englishman was demoted to third place behind Ferrari's Felipe Massa and BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.

He was accused of gaining an advantage by cutting the Spa circuit's Bus Stop chicane in a late-race battle with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

Hamilton's lead over Massa in the title chase has been cut by two points.

Massa's team-mate Raikkonen, who crashed out of second place shortly after losing the lead, is 19 points adrift behind Hamilton.

Before the penalty, Hamilton had extended his lead over the Brazilian to eight points, with Raikkonen effectively out of the running on 23.

On the track, Hamilton had survived a frantic last two laps in a late shower of rain to apparently score a superb win.

Hamilton lost the lead to Raikkonen with an early spin but fought back in the closing laps to re-take the lead with two laps to go.

In a dramatic climax on a soaking track, Hamilton passed Raikkonen, lost the lead again with a spin, re-took it and then saw Raikkonen crash.

I was praying for rain - I wanted it to come because I knew how to deal with it

Lewis Hamilton

In a chaotic final couple of laps, Heidfeld jumped from eighth to third place on the track with what he called a "hero or zero decision" to come in for wet-weather tyres with two laps to go.

Renault's Fernando Alonso chose the same tactic a lap later and it secured the double world champion the fourth place he had held for much of the race.

"It was an experience and a half," Hamilton said before his penalty was announced. "I was praying for rain. I wanted it to come because I knew how to deal with it.

"The heavens opened and I saw Kimi begin to back off and to brake a bit earlier.

"I was going reasonably wide at Turn 12 but Rosberg spun and went off where I was coming back on. I went over the grass. It was incredibly tough.

"Kimi pushed me wide. I was a little bit ahead. I was outside on Turn One, I had no room and he basically pushed me so I went on the escape route.

"So I let him past, then got in his tow and he was ducking and diving left and right but I managed to get past him and I was pretty much gone from there."
Lewis Hamilton lost his lead in the Belgian Grand Prix with this spin on lap two
Hamilton fought back from this early spin to win in dramatic fashion

It was another superb performance in the wet from Hamilton, who has inherited Michael Schumacher's mantle as Formula One's rain master.

But for a long time it had looked as if the Englishman had tossed away his chance of victory on the daunting Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

The race started with the track wet in the immediate vicinity of the pits but dry on the majority of the lap.

Hamilton, along with every other driver in the race other than Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr, chose dry tyres.

But the conditions caught him out at the start of lap two, and he spun turning into the La Source hairpin.

The mistake put Raikkonen right behind him and the Ferrari driver simply drove past on the straight after the Eau Rouge esses.

It was a critical error from Hamilton, who was fuelled to make his first pit stop a lap earlier than Raikkonen.

606: DEBATE
I don't believe it - Raikkonen didn't finish so there was no advantage ultimately

S92

That meant his main hope of holding off the Ferrari driver was to build a lead big enough before his stop on lap 10 that Raikkonen could not close it on his extra lap.

Instead, although Hamilton shadowed Raikkonen to the first stops, he could not pass him.

Hamilton's hopes were further dented when he came out from his pit stop right behind his slower team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, who was battling for position with Kubica.

By the time he had cleared Kovalainen and Kubica five laps later, Raikkonen was five seconds ahead, a lead he was able to maintain comfortably to the second round of stops.

The two men both made their final stops on lap 25 and on the harder tyre Hamilton was able to close on the Ferrari.

The 23-year-old shaved about half a second a lap out of Raikkonen's lead and was within two seconds of the Ferrari by lap 31.
Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari is carried back to the pits after the Finn's crash on the penultimate lap of the Belgian Grand Prix
Raikkonen's hopes of victory - and probably the title - ended with a crash

He was unable to make much more of an impression until the predicted late shower of rain arrived with about five laps to go.

Within minutes, the back of the circuit was soaking, while it remained dry in the vicinity of the pits - not an unusual situation at a track renowned for its capricious weather.

Hamilton closed right up to Raikkonen on lap 42 but he fatefully cut the Bus Stop chicane after pulling out of a passing move at the end of the lap.

He then chased Raikkonen down the pit straight and passed the Ferrari going into the La Source hairpin at the start of lap 43.

But that was not the end of the battle.

When the two men reached the wet part of the track halfway around the lap, Hamilton slid off, handing the lead back to Raikkonen, who almost immediately lost it again by sliding off himself.

The Finn then lost control going through the fast Blanchimont corner, and speared into the wall.

But the drama had not finished, and was merely switched to the stewards' office.

Their decision is likely to be greeted with cynicism as it makes the championship battle dramatically closer at a time when Hamilton was beginning to look like he was inching towards his first title.

2008 Belgian gp-SPA Francorchamps-Race results

1	22	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	44	Winner	1	10
2	2	nick Heidfeld	Ferrari	44	+14.4 secs	2	8
3	3	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren Mercedes	44	+25.8 secs	5	6(penalised +25sec)
4	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	44	+28.9 secs	6	5
5	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	44	+29.0 secs	10	4
6	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	44	+29.4 secs	8	3
7	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	44	+31.1 secs	9	2
8	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	44	+56.5 secs	13	1
9	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	44	+57.2 secs	7
10	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	43	+1 Lap	3
11	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	43	+1 Lap	14
12	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	43	+1 Lap	15
13	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	43	+1 Lap	18
14	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	43	+1 Lap	19
15	16	Jenson Button	Honda	43	+1 Lap	17
16	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	43	+1 Lap	11
17	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	43	+1 Lap	20
18	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	42	+2 Laps	4
Ret	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	19	+25 Laps	16
Ret	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	13	+31 Laps	12

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Telefonica European GP-Valencia,Spain-Race Review

Last Sunday we had the European GP again(which have been in the f-1 calendar since Schumacher was an rookie and kimi,alonso were school going boys),but it was not on the historic Nurburgring but on an newly opened circuit named 'Valencia Street circuit' situated somewhere in Spain.

Well talking about firstly the circuit which is created in the midst of the city using obviously the city road(or streets!!) and designed by Herman Tike(of istanbul,sakhir,shanghai fame),Though the circuit is quite wide but its an very difficult circuit and where overtaking is next to impossible,the only way being slipstreaming and slingshot,but thanks to the aerodynamics the 2008 f-1 cars use the car slipstreaming the one at front may more difficulty in overtaking than gettting any help.

Lap1-The race started off quite well and brilliant start by massa who promptly kept his well earned pole and converted it into lead as the five red lights went off,though his team mate Kimi Raikkonen had not so good start with the Mclaren of Heikki Kovalaienen over taking himin the start itself,after which kimi just couldnt find a way past Heikki,the first corner saw couple of spins as the train of cars entered it as the race begun with David Coulthard with Rubens Barichello spinning out of the track...but sustaining no damage to the car.Kazuki Nakajima spoiled not only his but alos fernando alonso's race when he shunted the renault 's back causing the rear wing of renault to give away and also causing rear right suspension damage in the renault and prematurly ending the spaniard's race,Nakajima's Williams though only sustained an front wing damage and he joined back after changing the nose of the car.

lap 2-37-
The rest of the race saw no major changes and everything was going in the same flow,except Sebastien Bourdais breaking a part of his front wing with the help of BMW's Nick Heidfeld

Massa came into the pits in lap 37 and so did adrian sutil,its not that sutil was fighting for the lead that am mentioning him but because he was the reason for Massa becoming $10000 poorer at the end of the weekend,the reason is in lap 37 after Sutil had his stop he was crawling down the pit lane but as he came near the ferrari pit garage suddenly an scarlet car emergedand it was none other than massa's f2008 which came wheel to wheel with him,adrian being at no fault didnt back off(as expected by massa and massa had to back off to prevent his Ferrari from banging wheels with Sutil's Force india or the Pit wall!!!,

lap 38-Chequered Flag

Lap 42 saw Adrian Sutil kissing the left side tyre wall at turn 2 in his force india and hence breaking the front wing of his VJM01 in the due process.Lap 45/46 saw kimi raikkonen's pit stop which caused an pit crew member(refueller) beimg hit by the rear wing of the Ferrari and the crew member being stretchered off to the hospital,In lap 48 later Kimi's Ferrari F2008's engine blew up while on the start finish straight,the Final Lap saw Massa Winning the Race Hamilton being 5sec(approx) behind and BMW sauber's Robert Kubica scoring his first podium after Canada by finishing 3rd.

2008 FORMULA 1 TELEFONICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE

(above)Felipe Massa delighted after winning the European GP,Valencia,Spain

2008 FORMULA 1 TELEFONICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	57	1:35:32.339	1	10
2	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+5.6 secs	2	8
3	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	57	+37.3 secs	3	6
4	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+39.7 secs	5	5
5	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	57	+50.6 secs	7	4
6	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	57	+52.6 secs	6	3
7	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	57	+67.9 secs	13	2
8	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	57	+71.4 secs	9	1
9	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	57	+82.1 secs	8
10	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	57	+89.7 secs	10
11	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	57	+92.7 secs	15
12	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	56	+1 Lap	14
13	16	Jenson Button	Honda	56	+1 Lap	16
14	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	56	+1 Lap	18
15	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	56	+1 Lap	11
16	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	56	+1 Lap	19
17	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	56	+1 Lap	17
Ret	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	45	Engine	4
Ret	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	41	Accident	20
Ret	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	0	Accident damage	12

2008 ING Hungarian GP-Hungaroring-Budapest-Qualifying Session Results

1	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:19.376	1:19.473	1:20.899	12
2	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:19.945	1:19.480	1:21.140	16
3	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:19.578	1:19.068	1:21.191	16
4	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:20.053	1:19.776	1:21.281	19
5	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	1:19.980	1:19.246	1:21.326	24
6	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:20.006	1:19.546	1:21.516	19
7	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:20.229	1:19.816	1:21.698	15
8	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:20.073	1:20.046	1:21.732	18
9	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:19.942	1:19.486	1:21.767	20
10	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	1:20.583	1:20.131	1:22.371	19
11	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	1:20.157	1:20.144		17
12	16	Jenson Button	Honda	1:20.888	1:20.332		15
13	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	1:20.505	1:20.502		16
14	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	1:20.640	1:20.963		16
15	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:20.748			10
16	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:21.045			7
17	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:21.085			9
18	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:21.332			8
19	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	1:21.670			9
20	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	1:22.113			10

Sun 03 August 2008
Race 14:00(Timing at Race Venue-HUNGARORING-HUNGARY-BUDAPEST)
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Hugarian GP

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The first Hungarian Grand Prix (Hungarian: Magyar Nagydíj) was held on June 21, 1936 over a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) track laid out in Népliget^[1], a park in Budapest. The Mercedes-Benz, Auto Union, and Ferrari teams all sent three cars and the event drew a very large crowd. However, politics and the ensuing war meant the end of Grand Prix motor racing in the country for fifty years.

A major coup by Bernie Ecclestone, the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix was the first Formula One race to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Held at the twisty Hungaroring near Budapest, the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar. Run in the heat of a central European summer, it also holds the distinction of being the only current Grand Prix venue that had never seen a wet race up until the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. The first Grand Prix saw 200,000 people^[1] spectating, although tickets were expensive at the time. Today, the support is still very enthusiastic, particularly from Finns.^[2].

Due to the nature of the track, narrow, twisty and often dusty because of under-use, the Hungarian Grand Prix is associated with processional races, with sometimes many cars following one another, unable to pass. Thierry Boutsen demonstrated this perfectly in 1990, keeping his slower Williams car in front of champion-elect Ayrton Senna, unable to find a way by. The secret to a winning performance at Hungaroring, as well as qualifying well, is pit strategy, best demonstrated in 1998, where Michael Schumacher's Ferrari team changed his strategy mid-race before Schumacher put in one of his finest drives to build up a winning margin after all the stops had been made. Passing is a rarity here, although the 1989 race saw a famously bullish performance from Nigel Mansell in the Ferrari, who started from 12th on the grid and passed car after car, finally taking the lead in splendid opportunist style when Ayrton Senna was baulked by a slower runner. The circuit was modified slightly in 2003 in an attempt to allow more passing.

Other notable occasions in Budapest include first Grand Prix wins for Damon Hill in 1993, Fernando Alonso (in 2003), the first Grand Prix winner from Spain, who also became the youngest ever driver to win a GP and Jenson Button in an incident-packed race in 2006. Also noteworthy is Damon Hill's stunning near win in the unfancied Arrows-Yamaha in 1997, when his car lost drive on the last lap causing him to coast in second place.

In 2001, Michael Schumacher equalled Alain Prost's then record 51 Grand Prix wins at the Hungaroring, in the drive which also secured his 4th World Title.

The 2006 Grand Prix was the first to be held here in wet conditions. It also saw Mansell's seventeen-year-old record of winning from 12th broken, as Button took his victory from 14th place on the grid.

2008 german Gp-hockenhiem,Race Results

1	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	67	1:31:20.874	1	10
2	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	67	+5.5 secs	17	8
3	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	67	+9.3 secs	2	6
4	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	67	+9.8 secs	12	5
5	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	67	+12.4 secs	3	4
6	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	67	+14.4 secs	6	3
7	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	67	+22.6 secs	7	2
8	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	67	+33.2 secs	9	1
9	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	67	+37.1 secs	4
10	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	67	+37.6 secs	13
11	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	67	+38.6 secs	5
12	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	67	+39.1 secs	15
13	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	67	+54.9 secs	10
14	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	67	+59.0 secs	20
15	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	67	+60.0 secs	16
16	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	67	+69.4 secs	19
17	16	Jenson Button	Honda	66	+1 Lap	14
Ret	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	50	Accident damage	18
Ret	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	40	Oil leak	8
Ret	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	35	Accident	11

2008-German GP hockenhiem-Qualifying Results

POS	DRIVER	NATIONALITY	ENTRANT	TIME
1.	Lewis Hamilton	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:15.666
2.	Felipe Massa	Brazil	Ferrari	1:15.859
3.	Heikki Kovalainen	Finland	McLaren-Mercedes	1:16.143
4.	Jarno Trulli	Italy	Toyota	1:16.191
5.	Fernando Alonso	Spain	Renault	1:16.385
6.	Kimi Raikkonen	Finland	Ferrari	1:16.389
7.	Robert Kubica	Poland	BMW Sauber	1:16.521
8.	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	1:17.014
9.	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:17.244
10.	David Coulthard	Britain	Red Bull-Renault	1:17.503
11.	Timo Glock	Germany	Toyota	1:15.508
12.	Nick Heidfeld	Germany	BMW Sauber	1:15.581
13.	Nico Rosberg	Germany	Williams-Toyota	1:15.633
14.	Jenson Button	Britain	Honda	1:15.701
15.	Sebastien Bourdais	France	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:15.858
16.	Kazuki Nakajima	Japan	Williams-Toyota	1:16.083
17.	Nelson Piquet	Brazil	Renault	1:16.189
18.	Rubens Barrichello	Brazil	Honda	1:16.246
19.	Adrian Sutil	Germany	Force India-Ferrari	1:16.657
20.	Giancarlo Fisichella	Italy	Force India-Ferrari	1:16.963

Santander....joins ferrari will Hamilton and/or alonso follow suit????

Santander is poised to join Ferrari as their sponsor after the contract with McLaren expires at the end of this year,actually i wont have been discussing this on my blog...but the twist is Santander also has(or rather always had) an sponsorship deal with Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.Santander Joined hands with McLaren in a bid to make the best of their sponsored driver Fernando Alonso's stay at McLaren...but things went against them when alonso having a bad time with McLaren quit McLaren to join ING Renault...which is sponsored by ING an Dutch bank...which is an possible Rival of Santander an Spanish bank.

Now Santander as is Joining Ferrari in 2009 it wants it sponsored drivers(Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton) to join Ferrari too.Santander is reported to be paying both the drivers Alonso and Hamilton an extrobidant amount and both wont be really happy to lose the sponsor(Santander).
But the Fact is Ferrari doesn't have an vacant seat for any driver(test driver seats...may be...lol fernando alonso and Lewis hamilton leaving Mclaren and Renault repectively...to join ferrari as test drivers...what a funny line it is!!! ;-) LOLz).Kimi Raikkonen has an contract till the end of 2009 and Felipe Massa having his contract lasting till the end of 2010,if lewis(doubtful) or Fernando(he's despirate) wan to join ferrari(in 2009) than maybe Ferrari would have to terminate the contract with Kimi or Massa....and i don't find a reason why massa would want to leave ferrari(that to terminating contract mid way) as no team(not even Force India would be intrested in him...you could ask them....ya if Sutil quits..but replacement with fisi or sutil...Mr.Mallya or Gascoyne no one would be as much keen...aah leave it..!!!) and after this bad show at particular circuits and a lot of show of immature driving...Massa would have surely lost his seat this year but thanks to the big trust of Ferrari on him(that was once there) they had signed a contract with him till 2010....
So Fernando may get to race with ferrari not before the start of 2010 season...that to if Kimi(who was rumoured to be retiring from f-1 at the end of this season) intends to quit...as ferrari wont be happy throwing out Kimi and replacing him with Alonso....

Felipe Massa;Anthony Hamilton having a talk with Stefano Domencali

Talking about Lewis Hamilton joining ferrari...as recently many had reported that his dad cum manager Mr.Anthony Hamilton was seen talking to ferrari official Stefano Domenicali...and it could well be possible that they were talking about Lewis's switching to ferrari in near future may be after Kimi quits...it could again be nothing less than impossible cause Hamilton firstly has an 5yr contract with McLaren which ends in year 2011(starting in 2007)and again the boy who was supported by Ron Dennis and has some really big favours from him wont be most probably leaving McLaren....but still you cannot predict anything unless we are ferrari or Mclaren officials!!...
But the conclusion is that Alonso will be joining Ferrari for sure at least by 2010(but considering that Renault doesnt deliver an championship winning car in 2009 and Kimi quits F-1) and Hamilton surely not till 2012 so...the only one that's joining Ferrari at present is 'Santander'...!!!!

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